v2 Chapter 74： The mystery guest at the Hog's Head

UPDATE: After Dumbledore's order is over, it's Tom's turn.

Tom put the candies in his hand on the counter first, and watched Ambrosio Froome weigh them one by one and calculate the total price. Tom watched Froome put the pepper urchin on the scale, and said casually: It might be more fun if it had a pepper shape.

It turned out that Froome actually took out a few peppers.

"These can also breathe fire, but they are a little spicy, so sales are not good."

Tom looked at the finger-long, fiery red peppers with a hint of interest, and added them to the cart.

"Anything else you'd like to buy?" Mr. Froome was quick on his feet and had already packed all the sweets during the conversation.

"I'd also like to buy a booze, the kind that makes people breathe fire after eating."

"Blazing Chocolate, wise choice," Mr. Froome took out a nicely packaged gift box from the counter. "It's been selling well lately, Mr. Lockhart, and I have another chocolate here--that kind of chocolate. , with a little magic potion mixed in it, you can-"

"No need!" Tom felt that Dumbledore's eyes suddenly became sharp. He was afraid that the boss in front of him would say something that shouldn't be said, so he interrupted him and hurriedly paid the bill and left. .

After visiting the Honey Duke this time, Tom's purse shrunk, and there were two more large bags in his hand. Shopping with two bags is obviously unrealistic, but fortunately, Dumbledore took out a small purse and shoved all the candies they bought directly into it.

"Unmarked Stretching Charm, a very useful little spell. But every item that has Unmarked Stretching Charm applied theoretically needs to be reported to the Ministry of Magic."

"Then your purse...?"

"I said it was theoretical." Dumbledore put the purse into the sleeve of his robe. "This spell can greatly improve the living standard of wizards. Will you use it?"

Tom shook his head.

"You can go to the library to find textbooks. I remember a book that talks about it in detail..."

They came outside the Honey Duke and headed to the destination Hog's Head Bar. Tom wanted to go here on a whim. The most fundamental purpose of his trip to Hogsmeade was to buy booze. Now that this task has been completed, let's take the opportunity to wander around - come here.

Tom, on a whim, chose the Hogs Head Bar as the next stop on this Hogsmeade tour. Going here, one is to admire the historical and cultural relics, and the other is to let Dumbledore slightly restrain his sense of existence that breaks through the sky. Tom really doesn't like being stared at by a bunch of strangers like a spectator monkey.

If Dumbledore followed wherever he went for the rest of the day, he would rather go back to the castle immediately.

The Hog's Head Bar is at the corner of Hogsmeade Village, at the intersection of a small road that turns from the post office on Central Avenue. When Dumbledore passed the post office, he seemed to remember something important, so he temporarily canceled his plan to go to the Hog's Head Bar. After showing Tom the location of the bar, he walked into the post office and disappeared behind the door of the post office.

The so-called important things may not exist at all. Dumbledore just felt like he wasn't ready and didn't want to go to the Hog's Head. Then let Lockhart go alone! Dumbledore felt that Lockhart would not do anything out of the ordinary, and Dumbledore was willing to give him this trust.

Tom followed Dumbledore's instructions and found this historic but very rundown tavern. The bar is located at the junction of the path, and there is a sense of decay everywhere: the wooden signboard is rotten, and the supports supporting it are covered with rust. When the wind blew a little, it made a "crunching" sound. Tom believed that it was all due to magic that it hadn't fallen off with the wind. The sign depicts a severed pig's head wrapped in blood-stained white cloth. This is probably the origin of the name of the pig's head bar.

Before coming to the bar, Tom wrapped himself in a robe, with only one pair of eyes showing from his body. But the robe is not his strongest disguise, Lockhart's identity is.

He pushed the door and walked in. The first floor of the pig's head bar is a bar, and the second floor is a hotel. There was only one small, dark, and very dirty room on the first floor. The lighting inside the bar is very poor, even during the day, candles are lit - the light from outside is almost impassable because of the thick accumulation of dirt on several windows. This kind of place is literally a place to hide dirt.

[Mission: Wandering around in the world. Goal: Explore the magical world

Five-stage progress: 2/16 Pig's Head Bar map unlocked]

The interior of the bar is set with some rough wooden tables with candle heads lit, and the floor looks like mud, but it is actually a stone floor with centuries of dirt accumulated on it.

There was a strong smell of mutton in the house. Tom didn't want to continue to visit the monuments after smelling it. Of course, the bar isn't for tourists either, who obviously have other purposes.

There were a few guests sitting sparsely in the bar, and everyone sat quietly in their own seat, which made the bar quiet like a bar. Among the few customers were strange men whose whole heads were wrapped in dirty gray bandages, and witches who were covered in thick black veils from head to toe.

There is a dirty bar in the center of the bar with some old wine bottles filled with suspicious liquids. There was a bartender standing behind the bar, holding a cup and a rag that looked dirtier than the cup - this rag gives people a feeling that it is better not to wipe.

This group of people, each of them revealed a strange feeling, and almost wrote the word "bad guy" on their faces. But at the Hog's Head Bar it fits perfectly into the vibe. There was a very strange man sitting next to the bar. He's weird because he's so disconnected from the bar that anyone looking at it would think he doesn't belong here: he's dressed too neatly, decently, and cleanly.

It was a handsome young man in a bowler hat and a double-breasted black trench coat. The decent clothes made him feel a sense of incongruity with the surrounding environment. More importantly, he didn't try to cover his face at all. Everyone can see his face unobstructed.

When Tom walked into the Hog's Head, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him. But most of them just glanced away and looked away. Only the decent "weird", who didn't follow the unspoken rules, looked at Tom and forgave him.

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